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Executive and legislative documents of the State of North Carolina [1883]

Q6 Document No. 18. [Session
IN 1882,
with an appropriation by the Board for enlarging and
refitting the Avoca hatchery I was enabled to put it into'
admirable working condition.
The improvenaents consist in an extension of 16 feet to
the building, a new eight horse power boiler, a steam pump,
one hundred hatching vessels, a sail boat, a telephone line
four miles long reaching to the two nearest seine beaches,
and various pipe fittings, tin ware, hammocks and general
supplies. It is now double its former capacity, and in ef-ficiency
it is more than four times as valuable. With the
hatchery now complete, it remained to provide means for
reaching out and collecting ova from other fisheries some
miles away.
They could only be reached by water communication.
Various attempts were made to hire a small steamer for the
occasion, but at a rather late date finding that we could not
secure one, I purchased a small sail boat as a substitute.
The season opened as bright as could be desired, but our
labors were confronted with the most adverse spring that
has occurred since the origin of the work.
Cold N. E. winds and storms were constantly recurring
chilling both air and water, and with such positive effect on
the spawning fish that but little spawn could be obtained.
The telephone communication enabled the attendance of
every haul at the nearer fisheries with a degree of thorough-ness
uuapproached before, and the sail boat was sent daily
to the fisheries on the Roanoke. The results were meagre
in every instance, and the ova which was collected was uni-formly
bad.
The total result was further modified in a very large
degree by the irregular hauling of Sutton Beach seine.
Three fourths of the eggs collected and hatched at Avoca
both by the U. S. Fish Commission and the State have been
derived from this fishery. Three engines are operated in

Q6 Document No. 18. [Session
IN 1882,
with an appropriation by the Board for enlarging and
refitting the Avoca hatchery I was enabled to put it into'
admirable working condition.
The improvenaents consist in an extension of 16 feet to
the building, a new eight horse power boiler, a steam pump,
one hundred hatching vessels, a sail boat, a telephone line
four miles long reaching to the two nearest seine beaches,
and various pipe fittings, tin ware, hammocks and general
supplies. It is now double its former capacity, and in ef-ficiency
it is more than four times as valuable. With the
hatchery now complete, it remained to provide means for
reaching out and collecting ova from other fisheries some
miles away.
They could only be reached by water communication.
Various attempts were made to hire a small steamer for the
occasion, but at a rather late date finding that we could not
secure one, I purchased a small sail boat as a substitute.
The season opened as bright as could be desired, but our
labors were confronted with the most adverse spring that
has occurred since the origin of the work.
Cold N. E. winds and storms were constantly recurring
chilling both air and water, and with such positive effect on
the spawning fish that but little spawn could be obtained.
The telephone communication enabled the attendance of
every haul at the nearer fisheries with a degree of thorough-ness
uuapproached before, and the sail boat was sent daily
to the fisheries on the Roanoke. The results were meagre
in every instance, and the ova which was collected was uni-formly
bad.
The total result was further modified in a very large
degree by the irregular hauling of Sutton Beach seine.
Three fourths of the eggs collected and hatched at Avoca
both by the U. S. Fish Commission and the State have been
derived from this fishery. Three engines are operated in